292 PIPRIDiE. 



8. METOPOTHRIX. Type 



Metopothrix, Scl. P. Z. S. 18G6, p. 190 M. aurantiacus. 



This is a very abnormal and singular form, which may perhaps 

 belong elsewhere, but on the whole shows most similarity to the 

 Pipridce. The frontal plumes are erect but short ; the tarsi are 

 nearly smooth, as in Masius, but shorter and rather thicker, and the 

 outer toe not apparently so far united to the middle toe as in the 

 more typical Piprce. The tail-feathers are much graduated and 

 pointed. 



1. Metopothrix aurantiacus. 



Metopothrix aurantiacus, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 190, pi. xviii. 

 (R. Ucayali), et 1873, p. 283 (E. Peru); iid. Nomencl. p. 55 ; Tacz. 

 Orn. Per. ii. p. 349. 



Above olive ; wings blackish, edged with olive ; frontal plumes 

 erect, orange : beneath paler ; throat and breast orange-yellow, 

 passing into pale yellowish olive on the belly ; bill brown ; feet 

 yellow : whole length 4*7 inches, wing 2-3, tail 2. 



Hah. Eastern Peru and Ecuador. 



a. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Amazons (E. Bartlett). Sclater Coll. (Type 



of the species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Lower Ucayali. E. Bartlett [C.]. 



c. rf ad. sk. Samiria, Upp. Amazons (Haux- Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



well). 



d. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



9. PIPFvA*. 



Type. 



Pipra, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 338 (1766) P. aureola. 



Pythis, Bote, lets, 1826, p. 971 P. leucocilla. 



Dixiphia, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. t. lxiii. (1850) . . P. leucocilla. 



Lepidothrix, Bp. Consp. Vol. Anisod. p. 6 (1854) . . P. cyaueocapilla. 



Corapipo, Bp. ibid P. gutturalis. 



Dasyncetopa, Bp. ibid P. serena. 



Tyranneutes, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 269 P. virescens. 



In the typical genus Pipra the males are generally adorned with 

 patches of most brilliant plumage, which present great contrasts in 

 their tints. The eighteen known species, all of small size, are distri- 

 buted throughout the hot forests of Central and Southern America, 



* I am nor acquainted with Tipra opcdizans, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 186, from 

 Para, of which the typical specimen has been lost. 



